An Intimate Conversation With Jazz Guitar Legend Jimmy Bruno

[@insidejazzguitar8112]

Underneath his anger and edginess, I sense a compassionate, intelligent, and sensitive person. I learned a lot from him over the years.

[@jazzguitartoday]

Indeed! :)

[@aaronsmith5433]

There "lots & lots"(Rainman) 0f us in `dis ærea🌿 🎨 people don't realize who ain't from here`ªbouts. 🎭 That's why "lots & lot

[@cliffberger910]

I’ve had the honor and privilege to hang out with Jimmy Bruno several times at Frank Vignola‘s guitar camps. He is definitely an American treasure. His fingerings and pitch collection approach to playing is phenomenal. I hope to see and play with him again soon.

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[@CarolEderGuitarist]

Hi Cliff!

[@cliffberger910]

@@CarolEderGuitarist Hi Carol. How are you? Are you in this Coquette collaboration ? I'm in but I don't really know gypsy jazz too well.

[@ejtonefan]

If you are a jazz guitarist, check out Jimmy Bruno's unique teaching style. When you get past his Philly gruffness, you will find the pearl of simplicity in jazz.

[@jazzguitartoday]

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[@KenTeel]

Yes, his sailor language belies his interest in helping and working with other people (and his beautiful music.)

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[@sclogse1]

Michael Cohen smoothed out the road to Philly.

[@qwargy]

The guy is a gem!! Very funny - tells it like it is and an amazing virtuoso!

[@RobTeeJr]

I would love to hear Jimmy Bruno playing just ballads.

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[@Wyrdo999]

I love Jimmy as a player and his stories are great also, its guys like Jimmy that keep the inspiration for this instrument alive, in regards to JAZZ GUITAR. What would music be without improvisation?

[@jazzguitartoday]

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[@rogertinker1813]

I enjoy listening/watching thank you

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[@jasonkeaton5140]

I love Jimmy Bruno! He's the coolest

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[@newgunguy4176]

36:28 is where to start from. I wish Jimmy would record his teaching curriculum starting from there.

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[@newgunguy4176]

@jazzguitartoday I do believe Jimmy has cracked the code as far as how to teach guitar. Too bad he's no longer interested in starting a website similar to his JBGW website. If I were a web designer, I'd make one for him for free. First lesson would be the five fingerings.

[@rockindavebyron3960]

This is GREAT!!! Jimmy Bruno is a LIVING LEGEND & SUCH AN INSPIRATION, GOD BLESS HIM!!! Thanks for sharing this interview with him, you're GREAT!!! Be safe, Jazz On & God Bless!!!

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[@jeffhildreth9244]

There are only two words that describe Jimmy Bruno...Jimmy Bruno. Fantastic interview, Thanks so much from So Oregon.

[@italianguy607]

Jimmy is the greatest and not just a great player but an awesome teacher. He is the only teacher that tells the truth about all of the work, pitfalls and all, required to play well.

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@@italianguy607 Grazie! Thanks for watching and for your input! Please feel free to Like, Share and Subscribe to our channel.

[@jeffhildreth9244]

@@jazzguitartoday Liked? Of Course. Subscribed a while back.. always educational and inspirtional.

[@jazzguitartoday]

@@jeffhildreth9244 Excellent!

[@stringbender57]

Great show! Jimmy is one of my favorite jazz guitarists of all time! He always plays the most tasteful perfect note/chord at the perfect time. How does he do it??? And now I know we have one big thing in common and that is the love of 'Earth Wind and Fire'. I play rock, country and blues guitar but am addicted to soul, funk and jazz music. Looking forward to more 'Jazz Guitar Today' videos.

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[@yusefandersen]

As much as I admire and love Jimmy Bruno, he does have his "old grouch moments". I've adopted some of that and, guess what? ...my guitar playing has improved!

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[@robertdouglas4293]

My younger brother started out as playing only with folks he liked, had a day job to keep it real for himself, A Blues man, ronnie douglas, proud that he did for himself, your not wrong Bruno, it's proubly tough, I play jazz, just cause few folk do, Man, Ill say this, he loves his stuff, writes, developed his style over the years, He was lucky to have wife support, he put family first, eventually folks wanted to play with him for who he was, Rare these days gentleman.

[@tel5690]

Mr Bruno Thank You so much for sharing your knowledge. Back in the 90's at community college of Philadelphia You taught me the basics and knowledge of jazz guitar I went to several of your gigs, owned several of your albums. I enjoyed this interview immensely. God bless

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[@rolandjgutierrez7737]

wow when he plays he can make you swing I have not feakt thar swing in a long time Mr Browno can mive the tunes I'm going to work at that...RocknRollFlat5

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[@fabiosky4368]

thankks to this hero! I bought two great dvds of him in the past helping me to improvise, they talk bout lot of usa jazz guitar heroes but not bout Barry greene ,he is absolutely astounding with his pat martino style and he is better than martino!! lot of lessons in you tube. thanks to these great guitar heroes playin in the classic jazz style and knowin everything bout harmony, and being able to do what most people is not able to do: improvising with licks and chords. ciao from Italy!!

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[@rickwilliams3412]

Jimmy is definitely THE MAN!!

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[@gerardoconnor7148]

Fantastic interview fantastic player

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[@SeeCSeesCC]

❤❤Hi Jimmy Bruno❤️❤️

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[@SeeCSeesCC]

@@jazzguitartoday you captured me you great channel you❤️

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@@SeeCSeesCC Yay! :)

[@rolandjgutierrez7737]

I seen this person with 2 other guys all playing guitar the best ever seennand heard these guys are the top guitar musicians in the world I missed out in buying a guitar pick of his it had sold when I went back to purchess. This Katt is wow factor 100%...RocknRollFlat5

[@darrelly.hamamotoph.d.7833]

Jimmy Bruno's looking good. I have a Sadowsky "Jimmy Bruno." Brilliant artist.

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[@guitarman6742]

Wow! Great guitar.

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[@ghergen]

Great interview Bob.

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[@daynenobodyIV]

JIMMYS hands are beautiful❤

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[@christiangarcia9245]

Absolutely love Jimmy, love his playing, his music, his teaching, his stories but I especially love all the shit talkin’ once get him started 😂😂

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[@pallhe]

One of Jimmy's records I love is Polarity, the one he did with Joe Beck. It's just two guitars but they make exquisite music and complement each other so well, partly because Joe is playing his alto guitar, which provides a bass-like register but with chords, and Jimmy floats on top of that playing most of the lead stuff. Loved the interview/conversation! Jimmy should make that record with Bruce Forman. Could turn out something fine.

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That would be cool! :)

[@guitarman6742]

Great album!

[@joksal9108]

Pick Yourself Up somehow wouldn’t work for a sax player but on guitar or piano-like Nat King Cole’s version-it’s great. And I know Jimmy isn’t crazy about playing at Chris’ in Philadelphia but seeing him there was an all time thrill for me.

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[@lokmht9626]

Uncle Bruno ...👍

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[@herculesrockefeller8969]

Nice to see Jimmy, and that he is past his health issues (I guess). I learned a lot from him in the past four years from his YT vids. Speaking of burning, he does some burning with Joe Beck on the album Polarity, particularly on the track 'Summertime'. As far as "Eggplant Pizza" is concerned, he HAS to play it - as Lemmy said "It's your 'Ace of Spades'". "those books are good if you have a table in your house with uneven legs" 😆 RIP Jack Wilkins.

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[@JohnFiocchi]

I really enjoyed the stories about the music business. When I started playing Rock clubs in 1976 most bands were booked 5 and 6 nights a week. There was no need to have a day job. It would be too difficult to hold one down. The money was pretty good for those times and that kind of work ended for me in 1989 when under contract at the AC casinos ended. Money was...( of course) doubled when I played the national circuit but playing clubs ended when most club owners sold their business in the late 80s and early 90s. By then work had already been cut for most bands anyway. They sold their venues , ( which were designed like concert halls) and then bar owners took over. Small bars. Dive bars! With hardly any pay. The drinking laws had changed around 1980 and it affected a percentage of your crowd volume..but you still played to packed houses. It wasnt unti 1988 when the recession set in and club owners in Jersey, Pennsylvania etc decided to hire DJ's every other weekend instead of a band. When they did hire a band they played only one or 2 nights. When that didnt work out they sold their business. When small bars took over in the 90s most of the bands were playing the same songs. It became a handpicked list. Back in the 80s I could be playing Chicago or Steely Dan...but as time progressed things got worse and you were limited to a handpicked song list. It wasnt worth the price of admission for me as I never liked Stadium Rock , Swamp Rock or Zeppelin. Even in 1972 I didnt like Led Zeppelin but anyway...it wasnt worth playing in bars. Much of it was an environment that consisted of a "Back In The Woods " attitude. Music doesnt follow one particular path like that. Its an art form and if you are a skilled musician playing the same songs over and over it will become a bad form of redundancy. Which is why Pat Martino said that he listened to different kinds of music...to escape the craft. It became toxic and im relieved to be completely away from it

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[@Esperia-ef9xh]

❤❤

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[@robertdouglas4293]

My older brother was Larry, the guy folks delayed the concerts cause my bro was on skidrow, theyhad to stop n play with him, Well educated, accomplished, the bones of life what you chaw on, is what it is, Forgot how may times my bro was a different proffessor, playing is making others sound better, you guys understand.

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[@sclogse1]

Good to see this. Jimmy doesn't upload so much anymore.

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[@vincentkowski8466]

A very civil Jimmy Bruno interview. He must really like you Bob. Jimmy can be pretty crusty. Nice job Bob 👍

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[@pallhe]

Just realized that Jimmy will turn 70 in about a week's time.

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[@stringsnare]

man you really bringing the heat on this channel, i love it. congrats to Jimmy for having enough F*&% you money to do things he wants to do. as a guy with a day gig, this episode kind of gave me the brighter side of having a day gig and not doing it for money. the grass is always greener on the other side, i suppose...

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[@artem.ostroverkh]

I haven’t made the whole video, but does Jimmy have some online school going on atm?

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[@guitarttimman]

I just recently discovered Mr. Bruno? Why? I guess I'm an idiot. Mr. Jimmy is up there with legends like Pass and Martino. Me? I only had 5 jazz guitar lessons in my life and that was just jazz some jazz chords. What's funny is that the guy that was teaching me said that I was playing jazz lines over rock chords. I'm talking about the 70's and 80's. People say I'm pretty good. Okay. I can live with that because I've never tried or claimed to be a like Jimmy, but I am good. Oh, I once seen Pat Martino playing country in a country bar. That was in the 80's. I thought, wow, that guy is so great but that can't be Pat. He seen me looking at him. I said you look just like Pat Martino, He just smiled and winked. haha I knew what he was doing. He was goofing to see what people thought about his ability to play the stuff. Well, that was the BEST country player ever seen. He is also my eternally favorite jazz guitarists, and Jimmy is right up there with him. After discovering Jimmy, I think it's Martino, Pass, and Bruno. The fab 3 of jazz guitar.

[@guitarttimman]

I mean have mercy. I play pretty good, . At least I'm not one of those A~holes who try to insult pro players like Jimmy. I wish I'd been able to train under the guy.

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[@guitarttimman]

@jazzguitartoday Man it's an honor. I appreciate that you posted the video. Jimmy is the real deal. 💯 %.

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@@guitarttimman True that!

[@JackTheSkunk]

I am not a jazz guitar aficionado, but there are a few I love to listen to because they play melodiclly. Alot of guys play a zillion notes, but it sounds like they're just ripping off scales. Is there anyone composing new "jazz standards" ? Seems like all the great melodies with lovely chord changes were written back in the 30's-50's or thereabouts. Bruno is a favorite, as are Johnny Smith, Howard Roberts, George Barnes, Howard Alden, George Van Eps, and a few others.

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[@tomj6650]

Yes there are news standards being created. Check out guitarist Gilad Hekselman. Brilliant and fresh compositions and playing.

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@@tomj6650 Thanks fore the info Tom!

[@mononoaware1960]

Check out Jim Hall, Mundell Lowe, John Abercombie, Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Ben Monder, Jacob Young, Wolfgang Muthspiel, and Ralph Towner. Most of these guys aren’t straight ahead meaning doing standards except Jim Hall and Mundell, Frisell and Lage do a standard here and there but they put their own modern spin on them. However they all play with a very deep melodic sensibility and very interesting harmonies, really atmospheric. Joe Pass also played really beautiful stuff even if he played burnin.

[@kenster3554]

This is not just in NYC, it’s pretty much the paradigm everywhere. Band leaders either have to 1099 their sidemen, or take enough leader’s pay to cover the taxes.

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[@KenTeel]

This is a bit confusing. Jimmy says that people, at shows, comping behind him will add notes (that kind of make it difficult for him when he's soloing.) Then he says the kids out of college will just play what is in the Real Book (and not creatively change the chords with each repetition.) So, which is the problem, people flavoring chords with notes that clash with his soloing, or not coloring notes (just playing what is in the Real Book)? He starts this dicussion at about 17:55. Maybe someone can clear this up. I don't get what he's saying.

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[@KenTeel]

@@jazzguitartoday OK, thanks for getting back to me. I enjoyed the interview. Jimmy is one of my favorite players.

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[@DDeCicco]

​@KenTeel Based on previous videos Jimmy has released, his problem is with people not using their ear and instead relying some intellectual approach to comping or simply going by the page. I think he's driving home the primacy of the ear over the eyes or brain, if that makes sense.

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[@vbassone]

If there's an Ab in the melody over a G7 then the OVERALL SOUND at that MOMENT IS G7b9!!!! The accompanist doesn't need to play the Ab in their voicing because it's in the melody (I think this is what Jimmy is saying), but the chord's true overall sonority is G7b9 at the moment or beats that G7 intersects with an Ab in the melody. One should ALWAYS be aware of the TOTAL harmony created by the chord/MELODY relationship. But Jimmy makes a good point; even though one should be aware of what the chord/melody overall harmony is, that doesn't mean that you need to ONLY play those harmonies during the blowing while comping for a soloist. Of course not, the comping should always be fluid and free. But if you're talking about technically what the harmonies actually are DURING THE MELODY, then the melody notes ABSOLUTELY factor into what the voicings should be called that coincide with particular melody notes.

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[@frankjurgensen9550]

I just explored jimmy Bruno. He's a funny guy with kind of dirty Humor. Not the notorious scales teacher.... He doesnt take making music too serious and that's it.

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[@yzimsx]

If this the tune "play the funk" with Lucy Woodward that Jimmy is referring to kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5S1p5iVbc58m7c

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[@Eged282]

An NYC sad update: Today, a band leader in NYC needs to pick up the check for the whole band, and then the venue owner will send him a 1099!! All this been done while the band leader needs to pay the band members the same $$ he/she takes in. That means a band leader takes in $125-300 a night, but has to pay his band $500-600(total check amount under his name would be $750 etc..dig)..now why can’t the venue give a check to each cat(Cash is out of question now)? Because they are too LAZY to run their own books and distribute more than one check a night.. let the artist do that..he’s desperate for a gig so much he’ll do anything..The audacity..they USE people BUT REAL cats are catching up!

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[@salgioe1595]

stop open mic night. the only people making money is the house. free entertainment, and the musicians are so dump they buy food and drinks and perform for free.

[@michaelgranka7904]

Some of us just want to get out and play with our friends. I played for a living most of my life. A lot more enjoyable playing for fun.

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[@ulfminstrel1772]

It seems you very up to money

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[@leosulentic9597]

FEED THE MONKEY IS THE NAME OF THE TUNE